 | Richard C. Mapp III
Partner • Chair of Employee Benefits, ESOPs & Executive Compensation T (757) 624.3285 F (757) 624.3169 rcmapp@kaufcan.com |
Rick is the Chairman of the Employee Benefits, ESOPs & Executive Compensation Practice Group at Kaufman & Canoles and is also a member of the Mergers, Acquisitions & Strategic Alliances Group. Rick is also the President of Equity Strategies, LLC, a consulting subsidiary of Kaufman & Canoles, established to provide ESOP Feasibility Studies and other services related to ESOP succession planning.
Ricks employee benefits practice includes plan design, leveraged employee and/or management buy-outs, business succession planning, executive compensation, banking and finance, and tax planning.
- Represented company and selling shareholders in $50 million bank financed ESOP buyout of manufacturing facility outside Baltimore, MD
- Represent numerous 100% ESOP owned S corporations doing business as government contractors in Maryland, Virginia and elsewhere
- On approved list of law firms providing Employee Benefits counsel to Commonwealth of Virginia, and agencies thereof, including public universities and colleges
- Facilitated and closed numerous ESOP buy-outs (bank and/or seller-financed)
- Provide Employee Benefits counsel for North American operations of large multinational corporation
- Best Lawyers in America, 2002-2012
- AV® Rated; Martindale-Hubbell
- American Bar Association; Taxation Section
- Mid-Atlantic Chapter of The ESOP Association; Vice President, Eastern Region
- The ESOP Association; Legislative and Regulatory Committee
- Norfolk-Portsmouth Bar Association
- Hope House Foundation; President
- St. Pius X Catholic Church; Chairman, Development Committee
- University of Virginia; B.A., with distinction, 1978
- University of Virginia School of Law; J.D., 1982